Programmer using PIC16F84 microcontroller

Build a low-cost and very simple serial programmer for a PIC16F84 Microchip Flash Microcontroller. Below picture is my personal writer for F84 chip, it works very nice with Nigel WPicProg V1.20.

Introduction

F84-Programmer

I finally found a very nice universal window based software designed to work with any serial programmers for PIC16F84, i.e., WPicProg16 V1.20, written by Nigel Goodwin. Build this programmer before started experimenting the forthcoming many interesting F84 projects. Some PIC programmers can be used for in circuit programing, some provide many PIC chips including eeprom, say. The F84-Programmer, however is suitable for beginners. It’s so simple and cheap.

Hardware

Figure 1 shows a circuit diagram of the F84-Programmer. The programmer connects some bits shown in the figure through printer port LPT1, say. Vdd is controlled by D2 with invert setting, logic ‘0’ at this pin turns 2N2907 on applying +5V to pin14. Similarly for Vpp with invert setting, D3 controls 2N2907, gating approx. +14V to MCLR pin. A programming voltage Vpp is derived by lifting GND pin of the 78L09 to +5V as shown. Data read and write use RB7, D0 sends serial packet while ACK reads back during verify. D1 is clock output synchronizing programming flow. DC input should be approx. 17V.

Software

WPIC16.ZIP Updated zip format of window version software for F84-Programmer written by Nigel Goodwin. The Latest WPIC16.ZIP may get directly from Nigel’s Software page.

For our F84-Programmer, check hardware settings window as follows;

 

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